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COPYRIGHT, 1905,

BY

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

Published, November, 1905

PRESSWORK BY
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XXV

PAGE

I

MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES: DARWIN

CHAPTER XXVI

MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES: SPENCER, HUXLEY, MIVART,

ETC.

CHAPTER XXVII

MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES: SIR JAMES BROOKE, PROFESSOR

ROLLESTON, MR. AUG. MONGREDIEN, SIR RICHARD OWEN,

DR. RICHARD SPRUCE

CHAPTER XXVIII

MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES: DR. PURLAND, MR. SAMUEL

BUTLER, PROFESSOR HAUGHTON .

CHAPTER XXIX

SKETCH OF MY LIFE WORK, 1871-1886

CHAPTER XXX

AN AMERICAN LECTURE TOUR: BOSTON TO WASHINGTON

CHAPTER XXXI

23

51

75

90

LAND NATIONALIZATION TO SOCIALISM, AND THE FRIENDS THEY

BROUGHT ME

CHAPTER XXXVI

MESMERISM TO SPIRITUALISM: CORRESPONDENCE WITH SCIENTIFIC

AND LITERARY MEN

CHAPTER XXXVII

TWO BIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES: AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF

SPIRITUALISM

CHAPTER XXXVIII

SPIRITUALISTIC EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

CHAPTER XXXIX

THE ANTI-VACCINATION CRUSADE

CHAPTER XL

A CHAPTER ON MONEY MATTERS: EARNINGS AND LOSSES: SPECU-

LATIONS AND LAW-SUITS

CHAPTER XLI

253

293

318

377

ILLUSTRATIONS

"OLD ORCHARD, BROADSTONE (Built in 1902)

MY FIRST LETTER FROM DR. PURLAND

ENVELOPE OF SECOND LETTER (Page 77).

A LETTER FROM DR. PURLAND (Page 77)

HEADING OF LETTER FROM DR. PURLAND (Page 77).

MY LAST LETTER FROM DR. PURLAND (Page 81).

ALFRED R. WALLACE. 1878

"NUTWOOD COTTAGE," GODALMING.

THE SARACEN'S TENT, LURAY CAVERN

SAUK RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. EFFECTS OF A TORNADO

ON THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY

GATEWAY TO GARDEN OF THE GODS: WITH PIKE'S

PEAK (Page 179) ·

"CATHEDRAL SPIRES," GARDEN OF THE Gods.

THE SEAL AND BEAR, GARDEN OF THE Gods

(Page 179)

"THE SQUATTER," GARDEN OF THE GODS, COL.

(Page 179)

The portraits of the Author illustrating this work show him at the

following ages :-